Webb, a multi-award winning advertising photographer and Bafta-winning film director, took what he thought was the cover picture for Sticky Fingers.

However, his photo was relegated to the inside sleeve, after Andy Warhol came up with the ‘Zipper’ concept for the album cover.

Webb, who found the negatives from his ill-fated photoshoot last year, said the exhibition ‘shows the unadorned public and private faces of the band’.

Jumpin Jack Flash: Keith Richards on stage (Picture: Denis O’Regan)

The exhibition is on at London’s Zebra Gallery until January 26,

Never-seen-before images of the band by veteran rock photographer Denis O’Regan have also been uploaded on to website Friends Reunited, which is asking visitors to upload their own photos and memories of the Stones.

The Stones will perform with original bass player Bill Wyman this weekend for the first time since he left the band in 1992.

Straight up: The Sticky Fingers album shoot (Picture: Peter Webb)

They will welcome back 76-year-old Wyman as a guest on Sunday for the first of two gigs at the O2 Arena in London.

Also returning to the fold is guitarist Mick Taylor, who spent five years with the group as a replacement for Brian Jones until he quit in 1974.

The performance is the first of five 50 And Counting shows for the band’s 50th anniversary.